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Hot dog stands don't often masquerade as creative expression.

Whatever they are! Using the literal word "brand" in public messaging is leaking the marketing team's lingo to customers.

For me it's when companies talk about themselves as brands.

Have a popup in the Claude web UI this morning telling me that Fable 5 is now integrated into the Max plan. Looks like a continuation of the previous usage setup: "You can use up t…

Fabulous use of meta-irony, bravo.

Maybe! Too early in the LLM rewrite era to tell whether this requires a LeBron or just someone who takes the local pickup game more seriously.

I do like these sorts of things; decoded a less exciting one from a bottle of wine I found in 2019. Significantly more eye-watering without OCR: https://xcancel.com/duggan/status/1…

Interesting. Been to South Africa a bunch but never clocked that they were different from the more common antecedent, the tetrapod[1]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrapod_(st…

> As part of our ongoing engagement with the U.S. government, we previewed our plans and the models’ capabilities ahead of today’s launch. At their request, we are starting with a …

This person should head up writing the next Silicon Valley.

Takes all the fun out of it.

> First nobody sane want to give their domain IP to OpenAI/Anthropic. That's why local AI will eventually prevail and flourish because people who actually have some IP will have no…

- FileTranscriber, for getting Whisper transcriptions of media files from the context menu on macOS: https://github.com/duggan/filetranscriber - usagi, for tracking Claude usage in…

I used JetBrains IDEs for years. The refactoring tooling was fancy find-replace as far as I recall? Pretty cool in 2015, though.

LLMs are a force multiplier, not magic. They benefit from good tooling.

The bar for "create software" up to this last year or so was "learn software development" or "pay someone else". Personally, I think millions more people having the ability to crea…

> $200/month is already out of reach of the majority of the population. 1. You can build small applications with the $20/month sub, much more with the $100/month. Competition and t…

There are some enchanting non-JR regional trains you can get in Kyushu, too. Got the Shimabara line[1] last summer and it was this tiny cute little single car sailing through farms…

> I worked at a startup, they built their API in PHP because it was easy and fast. Now they're successful You can stop there! Sounds like PHP worked for them. Already doing better …

> We're playing with a fire that catches and spreads so fast, by the time anyone realizes the forest is catching and starting to react, the entire forest is already well on the way…